Guidance Seminar II – Portuguese Literature and Culture II
Cod: 53023
Department: DH
ECTS: 30
Scientific area: Portuguese Literature and Culture
Total working hours: 780
Total contact time: 120

In the Orientation Seminar II, the student begins to conduct the research foreseen in the schedule of the PhD dissertation project that was prepared during the Orientation Seminar I and subsequently approved, under the guidance of the chosen teacher. Throughout the semester, she/he conducts the research activities that lead to the writing of the PhD dissertation.

Research activities; PhD dissertation

The seminar aims to promote in the student several skills that are associated with conducting a scientific research:

‒ to search and to manage information;

‒ to reflect critically on relevant bibliography and its main contents;

‒ to adopt relevant work methodologies within the scientific area;

‒ to reveal growing autonomy as a researcher;

‒ to communicate with correctness, accuracy and precision the results of her/his reflection.

Contents of this seminar are specific of the topic to be addressed and of the speciality in which the research is conducted.

References of this seminar are specific of the topic to be addressed and of the speciality in which the research is conducted.

E-learning.

The assessment depends on the quality of the conducted research.